Laura Vogt – författare

A pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893.Amid the crowd is Minnie Hoopes. Tenacious and fiercely independent, she is determined to endure the brutal frontier and create a life of her own. Guarding her solitude, she distances herself from bordering homesteaders and finds peace under the starry nights of the vast frontier. But this is outlaw country, and Minnie soon has the blood of two gunfighters on her hands. After a renegade outlaw named Stot discovers her secrets, she forms an unlikely friendship with him. With each passing season, Minnie’s past grows more haunting and threatens the future she has risked everything to build. Minnie raced into the Wild West alone, but her grandest journey in the frontier wilderness is one she never saw coming.Based on the true story of the author’s great-great-grandparents, this sweeping and transportive survival story explores a woman’s connection with the land, her reconciliation with the past, and her elemental search for home against all odds.Settle in, I’ve stories to tell.

In the Swiss mountains, Romi and Szibilla arrive at Nora’s childhood home to find their longtime friend has retreated into silence. With Nora refusing to speak and her mother keeping them at arm’s length, Romi and Szibilla are forced into an uneasy time together over the next five days. Their mutual acquaintance will bring out their own insecurities as friends, lovers, and mothers, unexpectedly confronted with themselves and their own choices. This is a novel that masterfully blends daily-life reflections with suspense. Insightful yet easy to read, readers will be captivated by the mystery surrounding the silent woman. A novel impossible to put down.Told in alternating voices, Woman, Idle explores two main questions: What kind of women have I become? What kind of women do I want to be?

Rahel and Fenna grew up in an all-female household with their mother and her female partner. Now Rahel strives to reproduce the traditional family unit but she is haunted by an unsettling pregnancy, postnatal depression and compulsive breastfeeding, while having mixed feelings about her singing career. Meanwhile, Fenna wonders whether she consented to the intercourse with Luc which left her pregnant. What Concerns Us is a punchy contemporary read that scrutinises gender roles within our society, examining what it means to be a mother and the nature of femininity, as well as how to remain independent in a variety of different types of relationship.

Romina, Romi genannt, erwartet ihr zweites Kind, und seit kurzem gibt es da auch einen zweiten Mann. Szibilla findet es grundsätzlich unverantwortlich, Kinder in die Welt zu setzen, und Romis Polyamorie ist für sie nichts anderes als eine Möglichkeit, sich noch mehr von Männern abhängig zu machen. Was sie verbindet, ist ihre beste Freundin Nora. Doch Nora flieht mit ihrer kleinen Tochter zu ihrer Mutter ins Schweizer Rheintal, legt sich geradewegs ins Bett ihres Jugendzimmers – und schweigt. Ratlos reisen die Freundinnen ihr nach, mieten sich in ein billiges Wellnesshotel ein. Während Romi sich Sorgen um Nora macht, ist Szibilla überzeugt, dass sie diese Auszeit braucht, um wieder zu sich selbst zu kommen. In den fünf Tagen, in denen sie Lebensentwürfe diskutieren, reißen die Gräben zwischen Romi und Szibilla immer weiter auf – bis Nora schließlich ihr Schweigen bricht.Was bedeutet Freiheit, was Verantwortung? Was prägt uns, was wollen wir weitergeben? In ihrem dritten Roman taucht Laura Vogt tief ein in die Gefühlswelt ihrer Figuren, Frauen um die dreißig, und zeigt sie uns mit all ihren Schwächen und Stärken, Enttäuschungen und Hoffnungen. Ein lebendiger, lebensbejahender Roman, der deutlich macht, wie Individualismus, Mutterschaft und Selbstbestimmung ständig neu verhandelt werden müssen.